Glamour crash

• 12 June 2009 at 18:13
• Enemy of Beauty, Music, cinema, TV, books...

Now, to find love, you need to cause car crashes!

Let me explain...

This morning, I saw this video, Talk you down, by The Script, at the gym.

If you can't see the video, basically, it's a little rock music guy, apparently things are not going well at all with his girlfriend, and then suddenly, bam, car crash, each of them goes through the windshield of their own car... and here they are reunited! So it's kind of a... happy end? I don't know. What's stunning about this video is how incredibly beautiful they look despite the shock. Normally, when you go through a windshield, your face is wrecked and covered with blood. Well, no, popstars, these superhuman idols, remain perfect.

However, this reminds me a lot of this video Spoiled by Joss Stone:

Same thing, she and her guy are each in a car and they hit each other. They go through the windshield and look even more beautiful than models in L'Oréal ads. But the ending is different because it looks like they survive, thanks to some supernatural phenomenon. I guess the director and Joss Stone would explain that this is THANKS TO THE POWER OF LOVE.

Maybe teenage girls watching these videos will think that, in the end, anorexia is so yesterday, that you should now be in a car crash to find love.

Anyway, this is not great propaganda for security belts.

At least, Coldplay, in their video of The Scientist, which also stages a slow motion car crash, showed that the girl dying was an idiot because you could see the moment when she took off her security belt:

But hey, don't think that every video more or less recent on the subject are always that melodramatic. In a completely different tone, Madonna, in a video directed by her then husband Guy Ritchie, played a crazy, furious, suicidal woman who would destroy everything on her path, until she drives straight into a post at full speed.

Like what, you see girls, car crashes won't bring you love!

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